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6 Feb 2017, 7:02 am by Christopher Hoffmann
The bones in this area include: The maxilla The lateral orbital wall The orbital floor The zygomatic arch The fracture can vary in severity and size. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 7:04 am by Jan von Hein
Dickinson: Realignment of the Planets – Brexit and European Private International Law At 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020, the United Kingdom moved out of its orbit of the European Union’s legal system, with the end of the transition period in its Withdrawal Agreement and the conclusion of the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 1:39 pm by jgabryno
This research will deliver benefits to humanity on Earth while preparing the way for future exploration activities beyond low-Earth orbit. [read post]
21 May 2010, 4:21 am by Jeff Foust
The statement also endorses “safe and cost-effective access to low earth orbit” but doesn’t explicitly support commercial ventures to provide that access, a key part of the agency’s new plan. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 3:43 am by Jeff Foust
NASA is required to provide Congress with quarterly reports on the status of the transfer of the shuttle orbiters to the museums to which they were awarded in April. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 2:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
This three-dimensional perspective view was created using visible-light imaging by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 2:00 pm by David Jeffery
He calculated the orbital speed required for a minimal orbit around the Earth at 8 km/s, and that a multi-stage rocket fueled by liquid propellants could be used to achieve this.The "castle clock", an astronomical clock invented by Al-Jazari in 1206, is considered to be the earliest programmable analog computer. [read post]
18 May 2015, 5:00 am by Dr. Cassandra Steer
But the most interesting orbits for internet and communications are geostationary, meaning that a satellite orbits the Earth at the same rate as the spin of the Earth, so that it looks like it’s stationary above one point. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 1:27 pm by P.J. Blount
A year after Gagarin's flight, and half a century ago for us, John Glenn made his orbital flight - 3 orbits around the Earth. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 5:01 am by Almudena Azcárate Ortega
Space Command, stated that “Russia publicly claims it is working to prevent the transformation of outer space into a battlefield, yet at the same time Moscow continues to weaponize space by developing and fielding on-orbit and ground-based capabilities that seek to exploit U.S. reliance on space-based systems. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 9:31 am by Tom Smith
The joint US-European AIDA—that's Asteroid Deflection and Assessment—mission intends to crash a probe into a 525-foot-wide asteroid known as Didymoon to see if the impact will change its orbital path. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 10:55 am by Tom Smith
To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no-man’s-land of Earth orbit, where a conflict is unfolding that is an arms race in all but name. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 9:08 am by smlangston
Langston with the blog faculty Source: DLR – German Aerospace Center / NASA JPL NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and German Aerospace Center (DLR) Executive Board Chairman Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed an agreement on 10 June 2010 during a bilateral meeting at the Berlin Air Show, ILA,  to extend the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission through the end of its on-orbit life, expected in 2015…more [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 12:17 pm by Tom Smith
If the mission flies when promised, it will occur close to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 lunar orbital mission, which was a similar swing for the fences that NASA launched in Christmas week 1968. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 1:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Sun and Moon On Oct. 7, 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, observed its first lunar transit when the new moon passed directly between the spacecraft (in its geosynchronous orbit) and the sun. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 10:31 pm by Jeff Foust
From a press release about the upcoming webcast: “The Planetary Society believes that the new NASA plan will help advance readiness to see human space exploration move beyond Earth orbit into the solar system and eventually to Mars. [read post]
2 May 2011, 7:16 am by smlangston
The sides also agreed to jointly use ground facilities to gather information for operating their own orbital objects and those of third countries. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 9:23 am by Tom Smith
The patent, which has been granted in the U.K. and the U.S. so far, describes a tower with a space launch platform on top that would initially be built to a height of around 20 kilometres high, but could theoretically be built to more than 200 kilometres high, and reach into low Earth orbit. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 12:04 pm by Tom Smith
Higher taxes on sugar are necessary for all the usual reasons: Other people eat too much, other people are too fat, and fat people are gross — except when we’re celebrating the diversity of body images and struggling against all the media images beamed into our cerebral cortex by the orbital brainwashing machinery. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:08 am by smlangston
“In 10 year, when the ISS becomes a powerful and home-like orbital outpost, the station could be used by commercial companies”, Perminov said. [read post]